We met on the beach in the Outer Banks, the summer of 2011. It was the summer before my senior year of high school. Brian was wearing a neon orange baseball hat...you couldn't miss him! I was floating around in the ocean on my raft when I saw him approaching with a giant neon orange inner tube. He walked into the water near me, hopped up in his inner tube and kept inching closer. Finally, I started conversation. There was an instant spark between us. We talked for hours in the ocean that day until we were sunburnt and pruny. Little did we both know that this young summer beach love would turn into forever. <3